Statue of Queen Victoria
STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, GRAND AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187555
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Statue of Queen Victoria
- Statutory Address:
- STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, GRAND AVENUE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187555
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Statue of Queen Victoria
- Statutory Address 1:
- STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, GRAND AVENUE
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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, GRAND AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29040 04384
Details
HOVE
TQ2904SW GRAND AVENUE 579-1/22/53 (South side) Statue of Queen Victoria
GV II
Statue of Queen Victoria. 1897-1901. Sculptor Thomas Brock. Probably bronze, and grey marble. Plan: metal statue on marble plinth, low surround with 4 small marble bollards. Life-size standing statue of Queen Victoria wearing royal regalia and facing south; dado of marble plinth embellished with 4 low relief bronze panels with allegorical figures representing Commerce, Education, Science and Art,and Empire, captioned above in incized lettering. An inscription on the south front reads "Erected by the Inhabitants of Hove to Commemmorate the 60th Anniversary of the Accession of Queen Victoria June 20 AD 1897". Of the 4 bollards, the SE one is missing. Commissioned to commemmorate the Queen's Jubilee in 1897, the statue was not completed until the year of her death. (Middleton J: Hove in Old Picture Postcards: 1983-).
Listing NGR: TQ2904004384
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365534
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Middleton, J, Hove in Old Picture Postcards, (1983)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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